GLOSSARY:


Activities: What research, training, advocacy and other things do we need to do in order to create this output?

Deliverables are a thing, a workshop, a paper, a scenario, etc.

End-user: The beneficiary population
Usuallyquite massive, making it unfeasible for a project or program to work with them directly to achieve an impact

Impact: What change do we wish to see for end-users in the long-term (20, 50, 100 years)

Impact Pathways (IPs): Describe results chains, showing the linkages between the sequence of results in getting to impact

Mid-outcomes:.Major groups of outputs, products and deliverables.

Milestones: Major outputs from research, usually involving several project activities

Next-user: Boundary partners that can create an environment that enables the target impact for end-users
Decision-makers that we want to influence to achieve outcomes

Theory of Change (ToC): Complements impact pathways by describing the causal linkages through which it is expected that an intervention will bring about the desired results.
A causal model or hypothesis of how the intervention worked or is expected to work

Outcome: An outcome is a behavioral change exhibited by a next-user: somebody doing something differently reflecting a change in knowledge, attitudes or skills. What changes in next-users need to happen so that an enabling environment is created and the impact target can occur?
KAS changes >>> practice changes >>> impact

Outputs are research findings, insights, experience, problems solved, etc. These are measured by the deliverable and process indicators of table one. Output: What will we produce so that next-users can achieve the outcome?

Partners: Individuals and organizations that we work with
Expertise, network and influence with next-users
Implementers

Project Outcomes: Each project should indicate their own outcome which differs from the Mid-outcomes and the 'Outcome" (Major groups of outputs, products and deliverables)